Social (Business) Innovations
Reconstruction/ land mines
Training rats to discover landmines: Apopo in Belgium trains rats, which are more effective than metal detectors:
https://apopo.org
Ammunition disposal
CLEANUkraine has developed a new technology for a safe and ecological disposal:
https://www.iws.fraunhofer.de/en/technologyfields/cutting-and-joining/laser_cutting/cleanukraine.html
Finding missing family members
Refunite is a plattform for refugees to find missing persons:
https://refunite.org
Peace Therapists
Mental health support through online therapy for refugees and other people suffering from war or catastrophes:
https://peacetherapist.com/about
Education for Children
Thaki collects old laptops, donates them to schools and has developed digital soltions (platforms, app) to support refugee children in terms of education:
https://thaki.org
Refugee empowerment
Phineo supports refugees from Ukraine wanting to found a start-up with regards to the war. It is a program aiming at impact start-ups entailing mentoring, networking, co-working and communication:
https://www.phineo.org/impact-startups
Socialbee supports refugees to find a job. For example, it offers language and computer courses and various sorts of qualification programms (IT, finance, logistic,...). Additionally Socialbee offers aid in terms of applications and a plattform for companies and refugees to find each other:
https://www.socialbee.org/en/
Tern is a UK based social enterprise empowering refugees to develop their own business ideas:
https://wearetern.org
Open State in Berlin has created a project in an empty shopping mall using it as a refugee centre:
https://www.openstate.cc/roc//
The Refugees Company in the Netherlands offers learn work programms between six months and three years to help refugees integrate in the labour market:
https://refugeecompany.com/en/home/
Germany based "über den Tellerrand kochen" is a network of 40 places in Europe enableling refugees to take part at common cooking events and mentoring programmes:
https://ueberdentellerrand.org/start-englisch/
Generation Restoration is an initiative aiming at transforming refugee camps in places, where refugees are empowered to help themselves:
https://genr.world
Training rats to discover landmines: Apopo in Belgium trains rats, which are more effective than metal detectors:
https://apopo.org
Ammunition disposal
CLEANUkraine has developed a new technology for a safe and ecological disposal:
https://www.iws.fraunhofer.de/en/technologyfields/cutting-and-joining/laser_cutting/cleanukraine.html
Finding missing family members
Refunite is a plattform for refugees to find missing persons:
https://refunite.org
Peace Therapists
Mental health support through online therapy for refugees and other people suffering from war or catastrophes:
https://peacetherapist.com/about
Education for Children
Thaki collects old laptops, donates them to schools and has developed digital soltions (platforms, app) to support refugee children in terms of education:
https://thaki.org
Refugee empowerment
Phineo supports refugees from Ukraine wanting to found a start-up with regards to the war. It is a program aiming at impact start-ups entailing mentoring, networking, co-working and communication:
https://www.phineo.org/impact-startups
Socialbee supports refugees to find a job. For example, it offers language and computer courses and various sorts of qualification programms (IT, finance, logistic,...). Additionally Socialbee offers aid in terms of applications and a plattform for companies and refugees to find each other:
https://www.socialbee.org/en/
Tern is a UK based social enterprise empowering refugees to develop their own business ideas:
https://wearetern.org
Open State in Berlin has created a project in an empty shopping mall using it as a refugee centre:
https://www.openstate.cc/roc//
The Refugees Company in the Netherlands offers learn work programms between six months and three years to help refugees integrate in the labour market:
https://refugeecompany.com/en/home/
Germany based "über den Tellerrand kochen" is a network of 40 places in Europe enableling refugees to take part at common cooking events and mentoring programmes:
https://ueberdentellerrand.org/start-englisch/
Generation Restoration is an initiative aiming at transforming refugee camps in places, where refugees are empowered to help themselves:
https://genr.world
